Publications

Publication details [#48731]

Félix-Brasdefer, J. César. 2008. Sociopragmatic variation: Dispreferred responses in Mexican and Dominican Spanish. Journal of Politeness Research 4 (1) : 81–110.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | face maintenance | pragmatics | refusing | response

Language as a subject

Spanish, Dominican | Spanish, Mexican

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JPLR/html

Annotation

This paper uses Scollon and Scollon's (2001) framework of face to explore the (socio)pragmatic variation of refusals in Mexican and Dominican Republic sociocultural contexts, when refusing an interlocutor of comparable social status, but with different levels of social distance.